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Fires & bushfires, 1949

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Record Fire Losses in United States

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 28

NEW YORK.--The National Board of Fire Underwriters places the value of property and resources destroyed by fire…

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Record Fire Losses in United States

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 9

NEW YORK.--The National Board of Fire Underwriters places the value of property and resources destroyed by fire…

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Record Fire Losses in United States

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 9

NEW YORK.--The National Board of Fire Underwriters places the value of property and resources destroyed by fire…

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Bonnyrigg Bus Destroyed Fire Causes £2500 Loss

The Biz · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 4

Fire last Thursday night destroyed a motor bus worth £2500. The bus was one of a fleet of buses owned by Mr. Garnett Station of Cabramatta Road,…

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Cabramatta Fire Brigade New Site to Be Chosen

The Biz · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 1

Ald. L. Duff, Fire Board representative of Councils, who is seeking re-election this year, informed Fairheld Council on Tuesday night, February 23, that very…

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Died in Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, March 3 (A.A.P.).—Twelve persons were burned to death in a fire that swept their home in…

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Ten dead in fire

The Sun · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 10

LAKEWOOD (Michigan), Thursday.--Ten people perished when fire destroyed a wooden house here today…

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Seven Firemen Die En Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 2

NEW YORK, Saturday. -- Seven firemen were killed and 13 others taken to hospital during an eight hours battle…

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Napoleon's Coach Burned Next to Nelson in Waxworks Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 6

ON March 18, 1925, there was a most. unusual fire near Baker Street Station, London. Firemen dashing into a three-storey building from which acrid black smoke was foiling: directed their hoses at the original carriage in which…

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Napoleon's Coach Burned Next to Nelson in Waxworks Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 6

ON March 18, 1925, there was a most unusual fire near Baker Street Station, London. Firemen dashing into a three-storey building from which acrid black smoke was rolling directed their hoses at the original carriage in which…

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Napoleon's Coach Burned Next to Nelson in Waxworks Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 6

ON March 18, 1925, there was a most unusual fire near Baker Street Station, London. Firemen dashing into a three-storey building from which acrid black smoke was rolling directed their hoses at the original carriage in which…

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Napoleon's Couch Bummed Next to Nelson in Waxworks Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 6

ON March 18, 1925, there was a most unusual fire near Baker Street Station, London. Firemen dashing into a three-storey building from which acrid black smoke was rolling directed their hoses at the original carriage in which…

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Napoleon's Coach Burned Next to Nelson in Waxworks Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 6

ON March 18, 1925, there was a most unusual fire near Baker Street Station, London. Firemen dashing into a three-storey building from which acrid black smoke was rolling directed their hoses at the original carriage in which…

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Open Fire Escape

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 6 March 1949 · page 4

This is a good example of an open fire escape. If a fire got hold the blaze could come through the windows on the right to the open escape…

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Many Fire Escapes Useless

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 6 March 1949 · page 4

This was made clear to me when I visited a prominent surveyor at the Fire and Accident Underwriters'…

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Rocket Gun Missed Fire

Truth · Sunday 6 March 1949 · page 20

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—For the seventh time in his not very lengthy racing career…

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"Only Disaster Will Rouse The Public To Fire Menace" City Fire Traps Exposed By A Special Reporter

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 6 March 1949 · page 4

A grave fire menace exists in an alarming number of Sydney's office buildings, stores, warehouses, hotels, and blocks of flats. But only a disaster in one of them will arouse the public to its danger…

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The Bookworm's page The New Guinea new deal under fire Even a dog could tell

The Sun · Sunday 6 March 1949 · page 33

THE Eberhart formula for a murder thriller is by now familiar and unvarying…

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Oil on Fire in Factory

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 2

Firemen from two brigades were rushed to Harrison's Manufacturing Co., Alexander St., Crow's Nest,…

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Oil on Fire in Factory

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 2

Firemen from two brigades were rushed to Harrison's. Manufacturing Co., Alexander St., Crow's Nest,…

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